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Our politics suffers from a shortage of people who put character and country before career and personal gain.

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Cal Thomas
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: December 2
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John Calvin Thomas
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Once a federal law or policy is in place it is more difficult to kill than a vampire.
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Not to remember 9/11, is to forget what brought it about.
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Victimhood and a “can't do” spirit is what the Democratic Party has mostly been about since the Great Depression.
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The brutality of communism was quickly swept under history's rug, in large part because so many on the left had embraced it as the solution to humankind's problems.
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Radical Islamists are serious about killing in pursuit of their extreme objectives. Releasing their soldiers can only embolden them to take more Americans hostage. The deal for Sgt. Bergdahl may well turn out to have been a bargain with the devil.
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People, like water, will run downhill, seeking their lowest level unless something interdicts them.
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We are approaching a time when Christians, especially, may have to declare the social contract between Enlightenment rationalists and Biblical believers - which formed the basis of the constitution written at our nation's founding - null and void.
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